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01.07.2022 - C64 game 'Poing Ultra' released and free for download
From The New Dimension comes this weird an wacky PONG game, written specially for the PONG 50th Anniversary Game Jam run by Retro Programmers Inside and Phaze101. This game is a pong clone, but much weirder. Features: - Compatible on PAL and NTSC C64s. - Enhanced graphics, with background tile animation. - Up-tempo in game sound track or self-programmed sound effects. - Selection of in game options. - Compatible with VICE, Ultimate, and theC64. - 64TASS Complete source code

01.07.2022 - C64 4k game 'Snake Break' released
'Snake Break' was made for the 2022 Reset64 4k Craptastic games competition. You're playing two classic video games simultaneously! Break your blocks with your ball using your bat + navigate your snake and eat the dots!

01.07.2022 - C64 4k game 'Skiddy' released and free for download
'Skiddy' was made for the 2022 Reset64 4k Craptastic games competition. Beat the competition in 5, 10 or 20 lap races of the track in cars with bald tyres. For 1 or 2 players.

01.07.2022 - C64 4k game 'Be a Bear' released
'Skiddy' was made for the 2022 Reset64 4k Craptastic games competition. On this occasion, the title says it all: Be a bear. The objective of the game is to take the honeycombs and advance as far as possible. You can get it as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

30.06.2022 - A donated Commodore Amiga 600 needs urgent attention | Retro Computer Repairs - new video from 'RMC'
This Commodore Amiga 600 was sent into The Cave as a donation some months back. It's lovely to give this old kit a home, but it's even nicer to be able to give it a new lease of life and that's exactly what we're doing today. This A600 will live again!

29.06.2022 - 'Cacorm' - game for C64 / Plus/4 released
'Cacorm' is a nice little arcade puzzle game, which is has resemblance to 'Qix' only that you don't have to draw lines in order to fill the playfield, but to build rectangles around stars in order to collect them, while you are chased by a ghost. You can download a digital copy of the game for free.

29.06.2022 - 'Games That Weren't 64' (GTW64) June 2022 update
Here is a bit of a smaller update than usual due to recent personal events at GTW. 1 new entry added (Eros), plus 9 updates added (Enduro Racer V2, Exodus, Kick Your Brain, Kwik Snax V1, RabbitJack’s Casino, Rockus, Rubicon 2, Space Wars, Sword Of The Samurai).

29.06.2022 - New footage for WIP C64 game 'Terrestrial'
'Terrestrial' is supposed to be very much along the Beachhead / Raid over Moscow. Here's a video showing a few of the stages, SFX still aren't done yet and the music is just there temporarily.

28.06.2022 - Amiga game 'Game Over Moscow!' released
You play a group of Russian soldiers who are returning from a traumatic war. The casualties have been massive and you end up trying to take over the entire Kreml. The only obstacle is the Evil League of Puticcian Oligarchs who are lurking inside the fancy looking buildings. You must search and destroy them. You can get it as digital download for a bargain (name your own price).

27.06.2022 - New footage (27) for WIP Amiga game 'Souverän Soccer'
'Souverän Soccer' is a (wip) Super Formation Soccer (SNES) like game for unaccelerated stock Amiga 1200 / CD32 and compatible machines (Amiga AGA 020, 14 MHz, no Fast RAM, 50 fps). This time there is not so much on the ingame playfield engine but more on all that other necessary stuff, mostly the menus and tournament logic., like: - Several general menu-system enhancements. - Save-game-manager-screens. - Team selection screen now fully functional. - Team names editor screen added (cup, leage). - Match preparation screen added. - Tournament editor added. - Tournament round info screen. - Tournament matches info screen... and a lot more.

27.06.2022 - Mega65 game 'Showdown' released
Showdown is a 1 or 2-player action shooter for the Mega65. The game is inspired by a host of older titles with the same theme, going all the way back to Gun Fight from 1975. Works on: Real Mega65 hardware, Xemu emulator (on multiple patforms), and Nexys with Mega65 core. You can get it as digital download for a bargain, or get the Showdown Collector's edition (a lovingly made physical edition on diskette and sd-card), which is available for pre-order at poly.play.

26.06.2022 - WIP Amiga game 'Farmiga' - new version (Beta 25.06.2022) released
This new 'work in progress' Amiga game is a simulator of a farm and you can get a demo version as digital download for testing. There are some restrictions at this point of development, though, but it's playable overall. Hardware requirements: 1,5MB Chip RAM / 1MB Chip + 0,5MB Fast (Slow) RAM.

26.06.2022 - Universal Atari/Commodore Power Supply - new video from 'Jan Beta'
Jan is modding his DIY Atari 8-bit power supply to also work with a Commodore 64.

26.06.2022 - PDF Retro magazine REV'n'GE issue #135 for download
REV'n'GE (Retro Emulator Vision and Game) is an Italian and English language PDF magazine, not only for Commodore fans, that mainly focus on game REViews.

26.06.2022 - Amiga port of 'Flying Shark' in the making
This video shows some WIP impressions of a new port of the arcade 'Flying Shark'. When the coder 'Magnus_T started to code on it he just wanted to see if it was possible to make a 50fps version, and it was! Now you can even download his efforts on the game in it's current stage and try it out by yourself.